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Originally Posted by Batts
... they say that $ 29.95 is to much for a paysite with exclusive content, who the hell are they to say that.
Your right Steve, review sites need to give themselves a good review, its out of control.
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Originally Posted by Why
iv also noticed some review sites have rather high CB and Credit ratios, thier surfers know about the ease of abuse visa allows i guess. or they just end up buying too many and regret it.
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Every other type of site in this industry takes the position of the sponsors and works WITH the sponsors to sell a site TO the consumer.
This type of site takes the position of the consumer and sets all the sponsors into a little competition AGAINST one another.
Obviously the sponsors have nothing at all to gain from this artificial competition except for a small amount of short term sales from a new traffic source, but in the long run they will likely lose much more than they gain due to increased consumer awareness of image/video quality, what they should expect for updates, why isn't this site keeping up with the Jones's, etc... the only way to combat this loss is to invest more capital into "improving" the sites at a higher rate than normal, however that is by definition a never ending battle that will only escalate. As an affiliate I'd rather see that capital go towards higher payouts than helping to increase consumer expectations.
That taken into account with the fact that the consumer is being reminded to cancel subscriptions before trial periods have ended (
there should be something in every sponsor's TOS forbidding that from appearing on any affiliate site IMO) is guaranteed to turn premium SE traffic into total shit traffic. It may convert decently however as mentioned above by those with personal experience it will have NO reason to retain and likely incur higher than normal chargebacks/refunds.
Once a potential customer is shown these tricks they aren't likely to forget them and will have been turned into a lower quality customer forever, whether they keep doing trial joins at the review site (and their bookmarkers must be mostly this type of customer) or go on to other sites elsewhere.
There's nothing wrong with "reviewing" a site per se to summarize it's own merits, however this setting the sponsor sites into competition against one another and training consumers into becoming trial-subscription cancelling chargeback machines shouldn't be tolerated.
BTW this isn't directed at TBP exclusively, just an observation of this type of promotion.